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NAWSA was determined that their organization, not the publicity-grabbing militants of the rival National Woman's Party (NWP), would be remembered as leading the long fight for women's votes. The suffrage story they told in their display of historical souvenirs had a deliberate beginning and end. It started in 1848 with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Declaration of Sentiments and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment and recent NAWSA presidents Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw. The narrowly focused display would define the Smithsonian's narrative of woman suffrage for decades. |